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Interview of Samantha Joye from the University of Georgia
Deep-Water Dive Reveals Spilled Oil On Gulf Floor
by Richard Harris
November 29, 2010
snip
"There's oil on the bottom," Joye says. "If you look at the camera, you can see the brown coloration."
We see this brown stuff on coral fans, hit like pine trees along a dusty dirt road. More slimy brown stuff hangs over some of the odd formations of frozen natural gas here half a mile below the surface. Crabs here normally pick at worms that actually live in this methane ice.
"The crabs don't look healthy. See all the dark spots and lesion looking things? That's not normal," she says.
more + audio...
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/29/131660871/deep-water-dive-reveals-oil-on-bottom-of-gulf
Deep-Water Dive Reveals Spilled Oil On Gulf Floor
by Richard Harris
November 29, 2010
snip
"There's oil on the bottom," Joye says. "If you look at the camera, you can see the brown coloration."
We see this brown stuff on coral fans, hit like pine trees along a dusty dirt road. More slimy brown stuff hangs over some of the odd formations of frozen natural gas here half a mile below the surface. Crabs here normally pick at worms that actually live in this methane ice.
"The crabs don't look healthy. See all the dark spots and lesion looking things? That's not normal," she says.
more + audio...
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/29/131660871/deep-water-dive-reveals-oil-on-bottom-of-gulf